Getting strange page breaks in a list with bullets. Have not checked the "keep together" option. What else could be wrong? I do not see any extraneous codes in the hidden characters or in StoryEditor. Thanks.

…but I have not used the "keep with next" or keep with previous options.

You might want to be careful with that. Since a bullet list is really a set of paragraphs with a new paragraph for each bullet (paragraph returns between), you could get into a situation where your whole list jumps to the next frame, and if there isn't a next frame that will hold it, it will go into overset. If you want to keep a number of bulets together, and it's OK if the 2 or 3 you choose jump to the next frame, make a duplicate of the bullet paragraph style and set it to not keep with the next paragraph. Then, use the non-keep style for most of the list, and use the keep style when the need crops up.

Not really squirelly…just specific. It does a certain thing, like most things in InDesign. Like many other things in InDesign, it can be used to your advantage, or it can work against you. You just have to know what it does and what it's effect will be when you choose to use it.